Saturday, June 09, 2012

Park Court Hotel - Grand Dads Pile.

Park Court Hotel, Cheetham Hill, Manchester 1972

This was one of my grand father's bed and breakfast hotels and on travels back to England we stayed here a few times. As was typical of the time, most of the rooms had their own electricity meter and I remember that you had to feed this meter 50pense coins if you wanted the heat on. Grand Dad used to send us to bed with a bag of coins in case we got cold at night. Can you imagine checking into a hotel and then having to pay for your own heat?

In this photo, there's some frost on the grass out front but in summer it was a nice lawn and I mowed it a few times. It may be the only lawn I've ever mowed come to think of it.

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